Amazon, Echo and Alexa

Ultimate Alexa Guide: 200+ Voice Commands to Master Your Amazon Echo
With the new premium $35 Alexa Voice Remote Pro, you can say "Alexa, find my remote" into any Echo device you own (or the dedicated Remote Finder button in the Fire TV app) to play a sound from your remote, making it easier to find when it's lost.
Alexa Plus leaves behind Amazon’s earliest Echo devices
Amazon is bringing the new AI-powered Alexa Plus to a wide range of its existing Echo devices — but the upgrade will skip many of the earliest models. The majority of the company’s first-generation Echos won’t get support,
Amazon to kill Echo's local voice processing feature in favor of Voice ID
If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all voice commands.
Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28
Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the
Amazon to Collect All Echo Voice Recordings, With No Option for Local Processing
Amazon has stated that it will, rather forcefully, collect all Echo voice recordings and that no requests will be processed locally moving forward. This
Amazon to Axe Setting That Lets You Store Alexa Voice Recordings Locally
On March 28, ahead of its Alexa+ rollout, Amazon will get rid of the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” setting on Echo devices that let people store voice recordings locally.
Your Amazon Echo will start reporting to Amazon on March 28
Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option for the device to process requests locally, thereby keeping their information off of Amazon’s servers. That functionality is going away starting on March 28.
Recordings of requests to Alexa will soon go to Amazon cloud
All voice recordings of commands or queries given to Amazon voice assistant Alexa on the company’s Echo devices will go to the Amazon cloud starting March 28.
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa ...
Amazon Echo Pop review: A great, compact smart speaker that’s hard to recommend
The Echo Pop is the cheapest smart speaker that Amazon sells but for an extra £10, the superior Echo Dot is an easy-to-justify upgrade ...
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How To Connect Spotify To Amazon Alexa Devices
Connecting Spotify to supported Amazon Alexa devices, such as the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Spot, Echo Show, Tap, and Fire TV Cube, is pretty straightforward to do. Here's how: You should then ...